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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 1-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?
(a) Its tone.
(b) Its syntax.
(c) Its length.
(d) Its perspective.

2. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?
(a) The smoke's meaning is unclear.
(b) He is not sure whether he is imagining the smoke.
(c) The trees obscure his vision.
(d) The trees are unaware of the people beneath them.

3. What kind of image opens the poem?
(a) A visual image of the mountains.
(b) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(c) An auditory image of the water.
(d) An olfactory image of smoke.

4. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
(a) Litotes, anaphora.
(b) Sibilance, litotes.
(c) Anaphora, assonance.
(d) Assonance, sibilance.

5. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?
(a) The Dee.
(b) The Severn.
(c) The Thames.
(d) The Wye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?

2. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

3. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?

4. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?

5. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?

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